Peter Gillette likes to read and write and play the trumpet and listen. Peter lives in Iowa City, and this is his blog.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Oh, and one more thing...

Stockhausen ends a banal, 1984 pro forma music questionnaire with the most dire explanation of music's importance I've ever heard.

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL: Are there any other questions that deserve attention in connection with the status of music? STOCKHAUSEN: Has it been stressed enough, that the kind of music and the amount of music one has heard during one's lifetime, is decisive for the soul's states and decisions after death?